I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead of here. Maybe... if I'd said, 'I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there. β¨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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- Sometimes you have to put your fears in order. β¨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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